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There’s a reason why today’s news that Path was uploading its users’ entire address book to its database was stunning — all this time Path has been positioning itself as one of the good guys! … Sort of an alternative to Facebook … a kinder, gentler social network that only...

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For all the good stuff it brings, Ivy Bridge has also been running a little hotter than reviewers and overclockers might have liked -- and that's putting it mildly. A few weeks back, Overclockers.net discovered a possible culprit: regular thermal paste that sits between the CPU die and the...

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Russian security firm Dr Web warns that at least 600,000 Macs are infected and part of a growing botnet, further disputing the notion that Mac OS X is free of malware. 76% of these Macs are located in the US and Canada, with another 13% in the UK.Possibly more embarrassing for Apple...

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Looks like some DirecTV subscribers are going to be scrambling over the next few months to watch their shows. HDCP copy protection technology seems to be the culprit. Over the last few days, denizens of the direct broadcast satellite Dbstalk forum have been venting their frustration at getting access to favorite...

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It’s not an unfamiliar story: There’s a niche market, which despite its relatively large size, goes unnoticed by most entrepreneurs and investors, because, simply put, it’s not sexy. For this and countless other reasons, as time goes by, legacy models and hardware, fragmentation, and high prices prevail. In short, it...

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Time to break out your theoretical physics cap for a moment. A new idea about the cause of neutron loss (a phenomena in which neutrons seem to momentarily disappear), is pushing the boundaries of easy to conceptualize science. Zurab Berezhiani and Fabrizio Nesti of Italy's University of l'Aquila have...

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I was wondering when this was going to happen. As soon as Apple launched iOS 5 last year, many of us in the tech press took one look at its iMessage feature and thought the same thing: The carriers are screwed. This week, we saw the first sign that that...

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When the folks at Bitch Magazine decided to take off into Google’s cloud, they were quickly brought down to earth. The culprit: an opaque Google censorship system that simply won’t let you register certain domains for its email, web hosting, and groupware service. Bitch Magazine — a feminist magazine...

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Portions of the Internet panicked yesterday when Gmail was hit by an outage that lasted for an agonizing 18 minutes. The outage coincided with reports of Google's Chrome browser crashing. It turns out that the culprit was Chrome's sync server, which allows users to sync bookmarks and other browser...

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Windows 8 crashes 55 percent less and is 84 percent less frustrating than Windows 7, according to a new report. PC optimization software Soluto helps over three million people in 182 get more out of their PCs. Along the way, the company learns a lot about what people do …...

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“Saturday Night Live” used to worry that people would watch the sketch show on the Web. Now it embraces the idea. The show even hires a social media agency to push links and embed codes out early Sunday morning, after a new episode airs, so it will get maximum exposure....

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Back in the mid-1990s when the Web was young, corporate Intranets were popping up at companies all over the place. They were usually quick and dirty efforts that often involved off-the-shelf parts and little (if any) programming. The idea was to produce a corporate Web portal that was just...

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With Apple having seeded the golden master build of OS X Mountain Lion to developers earlier this week, the company has locked in which Macs will support the forthcoming version of the operating system. While the machine requirements have been known for some time, the seeding of the final public...

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Several users on Apple’s Support Communities have reported that their new MacBook Airs have been crashing frequently, often pinning Google Chrome as the main cause. Luckily all of our guessing is being cleared up this evening, as Google has confirmed to Gizmodo that Chrome is the culprit behind the kernel panics on Macs featuring...

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We're entering a world of mainstream 64-bit computing -- whether we like it or not. Just weeks after Adobe started requiring 64-bit Macs for CS6, DICE's Rendering Architect Johan Andersson has warned that some of his company's 2013 games using the Frostbite engine will need the extra bits as...

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Cloud computing is obviously here to stay but that doesn’t mean all of us like the idea of putting our personal data onto what is essentially a shared resource beyond our control. No less a tech icon than Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expressed his reservations on this topic this weekend. “I...

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Since its installation in July 2011, the City of Oakland has had massive problems with its radio system. Timothy Wells On Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that local officials, in collaboration with investigators from the Federal Communications Commission, have now found the culprit to the Oakland Police Department’s...

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The latest cross-platform report from Nielsen reveals that the number of hours people spend watching live broadcast programming is down sharply compared to a year ago. The main culprit? “Time-shifted” DVR devices, according to the report. Basically, that means people still prefer to watch somewhat current programming, but on...

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Plus Microsoft kills Zune, and Facebook to imminently launch app store?A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamFacebook App Center Launch >> Business InsiderTake with this health warning: This looks like it's from one source. And note the following paragraph: "This...

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App updates may not seem like a big deal. Sure, they fix bugs and provide fun stuff like new features and enhanced user interfaces. But they can also patch potentially serious security holes. Case in point: a recent Facebook vulnerability found in the company's Android software developer kit (SDK). A...

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Every time you think we're done seeing totally ridiculous arguments about file sharing, the old really silly ones pop back up. Musician Logan Lynn has written a pretty silly rant on Huffington Post entitled Guess What? Stealing Is Still Wrong. And, indeed, it is. But nowhere in the article does...

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Uberconference debuts today as a new interface for conference calls — those terrifically annoying occurrences that people in business deal with on a daily basis. What’s notable about the product is it comes from Craig Walker, the founder and CEO of GrandCentral, which became Google Voice. Walker was also formerly...

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Another season, another reason for Cupertino to update its major product lines (hello new iPad!) and one particular hobby: Apple TV. The revamped box, now imbued with an ability to stream videos in 1080p, will allow users to download previous iTunes store purchases from the iCloud. But before you...

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It's a dirty secret that ad providers want you to ignore: The vast majority of site failures are caused by online-advertising services. They're choking the very sites from which they're trying to generate revenue. This is a symptom of the distributed Web with which we work. Sites today depend on...

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The bring-your-own-device trend has taken off, based largely on the popularity of iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. If there was ever a clear example of the consumerization of business technology, this is it, as witnessed by the sheer news coverage of the trend. But the freedom associated with allowing...

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As analysts crawl through Apple's disappointing quarterly results to try to pinpoint the exact causes of the miss, several points leap out. One of them is Europe. Until recently, people in Europe seemed willing to go without food, water, and air for a while if it meant having enough money...

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Apple is well-known for wanting a close spread in hardware requirements with OS X upgrades, having dropped PowerPC like a hot potato when Snow Leopard arrived just three years after the Intel switch. Whether or not you're a fan of that policy, it's certainly carrying forward with Mountain Lion....

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It wasn't all that long ago that the phone company was the source for internet access, first with traditional dial-up and later with DSL. That quickly began to change as cable companies started offering their own alternative, though, and the AP is now reporting that the second quarter of...